Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester

Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (1602-5 May 1671) was a Parliamentarian general during the English Civil War.

Biography
Edward Montagu was born in 1602, the eldest son of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester. He served as MP for Huntingdonshire from 1623 to 1626 and was elevated to the House of Lords in 1626 after being made Earl of Manchester and a Knight of the Bath. At the outbreak of the English Civil War, he sided with the Parliamentarians against King Charles I of England, and, in August 1643, he was appointed Major-General of the parliamentary forces in the eastern counties, with Thomas Cromwell serving as his second-in-command. He engaged in a campaign of iconoclasm in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire before taking part in the 1644 Battle of Marston Moor. He resigned his command after members of the Parliament were forbidden from holding military commands, and Cromwell took his place. He died in 1671.